The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 122
Then Fergus in the soil Planting his sword upright before it knelt, And spake; ‘O thou my sovereignty, my sword, In many a battle, yet in none unjust, So many a year my glory and my mate!
Who acts: soil, upright, thou, my · What happens: plant, kneel, sovereignty, glory · To what, where: sword upright, spake, Fergus
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soil, upright, thou, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Fergus | advmod |
| 2 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 soil | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 soil | det |
| 5 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Fergus | nmod |
| 6 | Planting | plant | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 soil | acl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 upright | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 upright | compound |
| 9 | upright | upright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Planting | obj |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 knelt | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 knelt | nsubj |
| 12 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Planting | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 spake | punct |
| 14 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 spake | cc |
| 15 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 knelt | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 sovereignty | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 sovereignty | punct |
| 18 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 21 sovereignty | discourse |
| 19 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 sovereignty | nsubj |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 sovereignty | nmod:poss |
| 21 | sovereignty | sovereignty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Fergus | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sword | punct |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 sword | nmod:poss |
| 24 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sovereignty | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 battle | punct |
| 26 | In | in | ADP | _ | 29 battle | case |
| 27 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 battle | amod |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 battle | det |
| 29 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sovereignty | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 unjust | punct |
| 31 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 34 unjust | cc |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 none | case |
| 33 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 34 unjust | obl |
| 34 | unjust | unjust | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sovereignty | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 year | punct |
| 36 | So | so | ADV | _ | 37 many | advmod |
| 37 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 year | amod |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 year | det |
| 39 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 unjust | parataxis |
| 40 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 glory | nmod:poss |
| 41 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 year | appos |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 mate | cc |
| 43 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 mate | nmod:poss |
| 44 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 glory | conj |
| 45 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fergus | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plant | gerund | the soil not said here | Ailill's sword upright | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent upright=Patient | ||||
| 2 | kneel | past | upright | spake | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speak=Topic | ||||
| 3 | sovereignty | thou | my nmod:poss; my sword conj; a many battle conj | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | glory | my | nom glory «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Project Gutenberg book 78491 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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